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Jeffrey Mongrain

Professor of Art / Clay and Casting

Jeffrey Mongrain creates both gallery-based works and site-specific
pieces. The sited works are primarily located in spiritual spaces. His
gallery-based sculptures are reductive and generally reference iconic
forms. There is a compelling oblique narrative suggested by Mongrain’s
sculptures that also reflects an autobiographical politic. Scientific
findings and religious philosophy are the conceptual foundation of his
emotive forms.

David Revere McFadden, the Chief Curator of the Museum
of Arts and Design, further states, “Jeffrey Mongrain takes the viewer
on a journey in to the world of experience and meaning on several
concurrent levels. Physically and visually, Mongrain’s forms are simple,
elegant and even austere, drawing upon the humble elements of the
tangible world with which we are entirely familiar and comfortable. The
form is revealed with grace and virtuosity. At the same time, each of
these forms encase mysteries, these are the secrets of association,
reference, memory and science that inhabit Mongrain’s world.”

Some of Mongrain’s recent solo exhibitions include The
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, MO, The San Angelo Museum of
Fine Art in San Angelo, TX, The National Museum of Catholic Art in New
York City, The Diego Rivera Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, the Temple
Gallery in Rome, Italy, The Newcastle Regional Art Gallery in Australia,
The Museo de Antropologia in Mexico, the John Elder Gallery in New York
City, and the Perimeter Gallery in Chicago. Jeffrey has also
represented the United States in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab
Emirates, and the 8th Triennial at The Museum of Arts and Design in New
York and the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfort, Germany.

His work has been reviewed in Art and America, The New
York Times, ARTnews, Sculpture, The London Times, The Chicago Tribune,
World Sculpture, The Boston Globe and Arte & Artes International.
Jeffrey Mongrain has been a Professor of Art at Hunter College in New
York City since 1995. He previously taught for seven years at the
Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.